British Army Officers
1939-1945

 

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Gadsby,
Henry Martin

H.M. Gadsby
Son of Henry Gadsby (1890-1962), and Sheila Stewart (1899-1987).
Married ((09?).1956, Chichester district) Patricia M.A. Crick; ... children.
1925 ?
-
14.12.2008
(aged 83)
Burpham, Arundel, West Sussex
Cadet
? [2702058]
2nd Lt.
06.08.1944 [326830]
WS/Lt.
06.02.1945 (reld 1947)
06.08.1944


commissioned, Scots Guards [emergency commission]
(1944)
-
(1945)
NW Europe campaign
01.01.1949
 
 
short service commission [?]
 
Gadsby,
Kenneth Alwyn
K.A. Gadsby (Photo courtesy of Mr David S.C. Wilson)

Son of Thomas Gadsby (1887-), and Minnie E. Ryder (1889-).
Married Joan Edith Streeter (27.09.1928 - 29.12.2007); two daughters, one son.
06.09.1921
Bolton, Manchester
-
20.08.1982
Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Cadet ? [1440632]
2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 [300511]
WS/Lt. 22.02.1944
Lt. 07.12.1948, seniority 06.09.1944
Capt. 01.07.1949
2nd Lt. 30.07.1964, seniority 22.04.1945
Lt.. 30.07.1964, seniority 22.04.1947
Capt. 30.07.1964, seniority 22.04.1951(retd 31.08.1969)
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) TEM 14.04.1950 -
? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow
22.08.1943     commissioned, The Manchester Regiment [emergency commission]
(05.1944)     10 Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment (Battle for Kohima)
07.12.1948     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.04.1950     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Regular Army [short service commission]
30.01.1952     transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Regular Army [short service commission]
30.07.1964     limited service regular commission
Gadsdon,
Peter Henry
P.H. Gadsdon
From Bognor Regis.
Son of Arthur Henry Gadsdon (1883-1997), and Catherine Fuller.
Married 1st (1947, Hereford) Lesley Delia Bolt; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1977, Westminster) Elizabeth Thompson.
Married 3rd (11.01.1997, Lewes, Sussex) Dorothy Doughty. 

interview at IWM [listen at sample]
04.02.1918
Westhampnett, Sussex
-
17.09.2017
Seaford, East Sussex
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
03.08.1940 [140653]
WS/Lt.
31.01.1942
T/Capt.
17.02.1942-...
T/Maj.
(1945)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
28.06.1945
Burma
Military Cross MC
12.07.1945
Burma
Mention in Despatches MID
05.04.1945
Burma / Eastern Frontier of India
?
-
03.08.1940
163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
03.08.1940


commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
1942
-
1945
served with 4/14th Battalion Punjab Regiment (Arakan, Burma and India)
Company director.
Gaffney,
George Frederick

H.M. Gadsby
?
-

[16.02.1913 ??
-
04.2006
Plymouth district, Devon ??]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
21.05.1943 [276755]
WS/Lt.
21.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.
01.11.1945-(04.1946)
21.05.1943


commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
Gaffney,
James

H.M. Gadsby
?
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
26.02.1943 [264442]
WS/Lt.
26.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt.
28.12.1943-27.03.1944
T/Capt.
28.03.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.
> 04.1946
Long Service Good Conduct Medal (Military) LSGCM
27.08.1948
-
26.02.1943


commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949
-
10.02.1962
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Gainsford,
Alan Peter

A.P. Gainsford (Photo courtesy of Mr Tinothy Gainsford)
Son (with one brother) of Thomas Alan Gainsford (1880-1949), and Elsie Bedford (1891-1985).
Married ((06?).1954, Plymouth district, Devon)Pamela Margaret Davis (31.03.1931 - 27.09.2004); three children.
28.05.1915
Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
29.07.1980
Yelverton, Tavistock district, Somerset
Dvr. ?
2nd Lt. 05.10.1939 [105642]
WS/Lt. 29.05.1941
T/Capt. 07.09.1941-02.02.1946
WS/Capt. 03.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Croix de Guerre (with vermillion star) (France) CdeG 03.04.1945 commanding Forward Ammunition Point of 29th Armoured Brigade throughout the campaign in France
05.10.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(1944/45)     171st Company RASC (Croix de Guerre)
19.05.1951     Corps of Royal Engineers - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
LRIBA.
Published: (edited by Tim Gainsford) My war diary : from Normandy into Hitler's Reich (2015).
Gale,
Sir Richard Nelson
"Windy"
R.N. Gale (Source: ox18.net/ broadwellrafmjgale.htm) R.N. Gale (Source: ox18.net/ broadwellrafmjgale.htm)
R.N. Gale (Source: ox18.net/ broadwellrafmjgale.htm) R.N. Gale (Source: www.1canpara.com)
R.N. Gale (Source: http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/c_gale [containing more photos]) R.N. Gale (Source: hhttp://www.ornebridgehead.org/richard_gale.htm [containing much more photos])
R.N. Gale

25.07.1896
Wandsworth, London
-
29.07.1982
London
2nd Lt.
22.12.1915
..
..
T/Maj.Gen.
07.05.1944-03.12.1946
...
...
Gen.
06.06.1952 (retd 1957) (retd 19.11.1960)
Knight Grand Corss of the Order of the Bath GCB
1954
?
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
1953
?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
02.08.1945
?
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
1950
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
1940
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
31.08.1944
?
Military Cross MC
1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
?
Mention in Despatches MID
07.01.1949
?
Commander of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM
16.01.1948
?
Officer of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM
20.06.1944
?
Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
28.12.1956
?
Croix de Guerre with Palm (France) CdeG
28.12.1956
?

British War Medal; Victory Medal; Grand Officier de la Couronne (Belgium)

Education: Merchant Taylors' School; Aldenham; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1915); Staff College, Quetta
22.12.1915


commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment
1916
-
1922
Machine Gun Corps (WWI Western Front; won MC) (from 1918 India)
11.01.1923
-
31.01.1927
Instructor (Class C), Machine Gun School India
1927
-
1930
served in India
26.02.1930


transferred to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
20.02.1932
-
31.12.1933
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India)
01.01.1934
-
19.02.1936
Brigade Major, ... (India)
01.02.1937
-
24.10.1939
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO), ...
13.10.1937


transferred to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
12.1938


Staff Duties (Planning), General Staff, War Office (London)
25.10.1939
-
11.12.1940
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
12.1940
-
07.1941
Commanding Officer, 2/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment
05.09.1941
-
17.04.1942
Commander, 1st Parachute Brigade (UK)
18.04.1942
-
15.06.1942
Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Air), War Office (London)
16.06.1942
-
11.12.1942
Directorate of Air, War Office (London)
12.12.1942
-
06.05.1943
Deputy Director of Air, War Office (London)
07.05.1943
-
23.05.1945
General Officer Commanding, 6th Airborne Division (UK, NW Europe [Normandy], UK)
08.12.1944


also: Deputy Commander, 1st Allied Airborne Army
24.05.1945
-
31.10.1945
General Officer Commanding, 1st British Airborne Corps
18.01.1946
-
10.12.1947
General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division
01.01.1948
-
16.01.1949
General Officer Commanding, British Troops, Egypt and Mediterranean Command
07.02.1949
-
14.05.1952
Director-General of Military Training, War Office (London)
24.09.1952
-
31.12.1956
Commander-in-Chief, Northern Army Group, Allied Land Forces Europe & British Army of the Rhine
1958
-
1960
re-employed NATO: Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
ADC to the Queen, 31.01.1954-1957. Colonel, The Worcestershire Regiment, 20.04.1950-1961. Colonel Commandant, The Parachute Regiment, 1956-1961.
Published:
With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy (1948); Call to arms (1968); Great battles of Biblical history (1969); The Worcestershire Regiment (1970); Kings at arms (1971)
Gallagher,
Edward Joseph
E.J. Gallagher (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jackie M. Rogers)
(03?).1911 ?
Greater London / Kent / London ?
-
2nd Lt.
03.04.1943 [269085]
WS/Lt.
03.10.1943
21.01.1943
-
02.04.1943
36th course, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
03.04.1943


commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
Galliford,
Horace Cornelius William
"Mike"
H.C.W. Galliford
Son of Frederick William Hector Galliford (1887-1953), and Charlotte Mary Owens (1890?-1965).
Married 1st (09.08.1941, St John's Church, Radcliffe, Lancashire; divorced) June Wakeling Taylor; one son. She remarried ((03?).1947, Brighton district, Sussex) Colin G.M. Payne.
Married 2nd ((03?).1947, Hull district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Sister Isabella Abigail Anderson, QAIMNS (25.08.1919 - 29.05.1994); three sons, one daughter.
21.08.1917
Brighton, East Sussex
-
14.12.1983
Brandon, Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 22.03.1941 [179479]
WS/Lt. 22.09.1942 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 24.04.1945-(04.1946)
T/Maj. ? ?
39-45 St - -

Africa Star

Afr St - & clasp 1st Army

Italy Star

It St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
? - 22.03.1941 either 121st, 125th or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
22.03.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
03.01.1942     transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers
      served with the Royal Engineers in North Africa with the First Army, and then served in Italy and lastly Greece
Civil engineer.
Gamble,
Eric
E. Gamble

?
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
15.03.1941 [177623]
WS/Lt.
15.09.1942
T/Capt.
04.08.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.
01.01.1949
?
-
14.03.1941
151st or 152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.03.1941


commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
06.05.1943
-
30.06.1944
2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment ( NW Europe)
01.07.1944
-
(09.1944)
Officer Commanding, HQ Company, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment ( NW Europe)
03.12.1945

 
transferred, Army Educational Corps
01.01.1949
 
 
Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Gammell,
Sir James Andrew Harcourt
J.A.H. Gammell

Eldest son of late Sir Sydney J. Gammell, Countesswells,
Aberdeenshire.
Married 1st (1919) Gertrude
(died 1960), eldest daughter of late Gilbert W. Don; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1964) Mrs Mary Kirkwood, widow of Comdr.
David Kirkwood, RN.

26.09.1892
[Scotland ?]
-
01.08.1975
[Alrick, Glenisla, by Alyth, Perthshire?]
2nd Lt.
05.08.1914, seniority 19.12.1912 [8402]
Maj.
1927
Bt. Lt.Col.
1931
Lt.Col.
1935
Col.
1938
T/Brig.
19.12.1938-06.05.1941
A/Maj.Gen.
24.07.1940-06.05.1941
Maj.Gen.
07.05.1941, seniority 30.11.1940
A/Lt.Gen.
25.12.1941-24.12.1942
T/Lt.Gen.
25.12.1942-28.09.1944
Lt.Gen.
29.09.1944, seniority 01.07.1944 (retd 09.05.1946)

KCB 1944 (CB 27.09.1940); DSO 1917; MC; DL

Education: Winchester; Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, 2nd class Hons Hist. Trip.); idc (1938)
05.08.1914


commissioned, Royal Field Artillery



served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches 7 times, DSO, MC)
1927


transferred to Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
1930
-
1933
Instructor Staff College, Camberley
05.05.1935
-
1938
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
19.12.1938
-
06.02.1940
Commander, 4th Infantry Brigade (Aldershot Command, UK & BEF, France)
07.02.1940
-
21.06.1940
Brigadier General Staff, British Expeditionary Force (France)
22.06.1940
-
23.07.1940
Commander, 15th Infantry Brigade (Scottish Command)
24.07.1940
-
24.12.1941
General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (UK)
25.12.1941
-
06.09.1942
General Officer Commanding, ... Corps (UK)
07.09.1942
-
03.01.1944
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command (UK)
04.01.1944
-
17.12.1944
Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre
1945


Representative of British Chiefs of Staff with USSR and Head of British Military Mission in Moscow
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County Angus, 1946.
Gammon,
Richard John
R.J. Gammon
18.09.1916
-
23.07.1967
New Delhi, India (formerly of Bassett, Southampton)
2nd Lt. 02.09.1939 [100039]
WS/Lt. 02.03.1941
A/Capt. 06.09.1945-05.12.1945
T/Capt. 06.12.1945-30.06.1946
Lt. 03.08.1946, seniority 03.03.1941
Capt. 03.08.1946, seniority 01.07.1946
A/Maj. 05.05.1946-04.08.1946
T/Maj. 05.08.1946-26.12.1946, 01.08.1947-15.01.1948, 01.08.1951-01.09.1952
Maj. 02.09.1952 (retd 26.09.1958)
local Lt.Col. 01.02.1954
MC 09.08.1945 possibly Greece
Mention in Despatches MID 23.03.1944 Sicily 07.43
Mention in Despatches MID 07.01.1949 Palestine 03-09.46
Territorial/Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 ?
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
02.09.1939     commissioned, 5th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) - Territorial Army
01.08.1942     transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
      1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment (designed the Gammon bomb, the hand grenade (no. 82) used primarily by British airborne forces)
      served Special Operations Executive (SOE)
(09.1944)     Raiding Support Regiment (Greece)
03.08.1946     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [permanent commission]
26.09.1958 - 18.09.1966 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Gange,
Frank Cecil
F.C. Gange
Son of Frank Belson Gange and Nellie Gange; husband of Maud Gange.
17.12.1918
Shanghai, China
-
09.06.1943
Bairagarh, nr. Bhopal, India
(railway accident)
[Kirkee War Cemetery, India, 8.D.6]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
10.05.1941 [186779]
WS/Lt.
10.05.1942
Worked briefly for the Meteorological Office before enlisting the Army.



Officer Cadet Training Unit
10.05.1941


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1943)


4th Field Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery (Poona, India)
Gannon,
Jack Rose Compton *
J.R.C. Gannon (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley Lindsay) J.R.C. Gannon
J.R.C. Gannon
* Initially shown as: Jack Compton Rose Gannon.
Son of John Gannon, of St John's College, Cambridge.
Married ((09?).1910, St Marylebone district, London) Dorothy Mary Robertson (17.10.1883 - 28.03.1971), daughter of George Robertson, of Melbourne; one daughter.

01.11.1882
Ireland
-
25.04.1980
King Edward VIIIth Hospital, Midhurst, Chichester district, West Sussex
2nd Lt. 22.10.1902 [1838]
Lt. 09.01.1906
19.06.1906, seniority 01.01.1906
04.10.1906, seniority 22.01.1905
Capt. 22.10.1911
Maj. 22.10.1917
T/Lt.Col. ...-16.09.1919
Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1925
Lt.Col. 22.10.1928 (Unemployed List 01.11.1932) (retd 07.09.1933)
Lt.Col. 16.10.1939 [3790]
A/Brig. 19.04.1945-(04.1946) (reverted to retd 1946)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE 01.02.1945 NW Europe
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42
Member of the Royal Victorian Order 4th class MVO 11.03.1922 Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, India
Mention in Despatches MID 10.06.1921 Waziristan
Mention in Despatches MID 09.08.1945 NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe
Officier, Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH 1944 liberation of France
Croix de Guerre avec palmes (France) CdeG ? ?
Commander, Legion of Merit (USA) LM ? ?
Knight Commander Order of Oranje-Nassau with swords (The Netherlands) OON 08.11.1945 liberation of the Netherlands
Education: Sutton Valence; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
22.10.1902 - 1906 commissioned, South Staffordshire Regiment
04.10.1906     23rd Cavalry (Frontier Force) - Indian Army
      served in the Great War 1914-1918, Afghan War 1919, and in operations against the Mahsuds 1919-1920 (despatches twice)
01.09.1916 - 07.11.1916 Adjutant, S.A.D. [Small Arms Depot?] - Royal Flying Corps
1917     Maj., P.A.V.O. Cavalry (11th Frontier Force)
? - 16.09.1919 Assistant Director of Remounts
03.10.1919 - 31.05.1920 Assistant Director of Remounts, Waziristan Field Force
1920 - 1925 Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, India (MVO)
1927 - 1932 Commanding Officer, Sam Browne's Cavalry (12th Frontier Force)
07.09.1933 - 01.11.1937 Indian Regular Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
      Special List (retired officers re-employed):
16.10.1939 - 10.10.1940 specially employed as Assistant Military Secretary, GHQ British Expeditionary Force in France
11.10.1940 - 21.07.1943 specially employed as Assistant Military Secretary, GHQ Home Forces (OBE)
22.07.1943 - (04.)1946 specially employed as Deputy Military Secretary 21st Army Group, from 1945 British Army of the Rhine (NW Europe) (CBE, despatches twice)
Manager, Hurlingham Club, 1934-1939; Honorary Secretary, Hurlingham Polo Association, 1934-; President, Arab Horse Society, 1951; President, National Pony Society, 1954-. British Horse Society's Medal of Honour, 1970.
Gannon,
John Anthony [Murphy]
J.A. Gannon
Son of ... Gannon, and ... Murphy.
Married 1st ((03?).1944, Edmonton district, Hertfordshire / Middlesex / Essex) Elisabeth Allen; ... children (one son?).
Married 2nd ((09?).1966, Kensington district, London) Jacqueline O. Gannon.
14.10.1916
Warrington district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
13.07.2005
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
2nd Lt. 18.12.1937 [73736]
WS/Lt. 25.12.1939
WS/Capt. 13.01.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Maj. 01.01.1942-(04.1943)
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 02.12.2003 -
      Officer Cadet, Liverpool University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
18.12.1937     commissioned, 55th (West Lancashire) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
1939 - 1940 with British Expeditionary Force (France)
1940 - 1944 attached, Royal Indian Army Service Corps - Indian Army
01.01.1942 - (04.)1943 Instructor, Royal Indian Army Service Corps School (Kakul/Chaklala)
[Indian Army List shows from 10.03.1941 with rank of T/Capt.]
1944     invalided to UK
01.01.1945 - (04.)1946 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Training Branch, Military Section, Combined Operations Headquarters
Garbett,
Glyn Warren

G.W. Garbett
Son of Thomas and Millicent Garbett, of Crynant, Glamorgan.
(09?).1919
Crynant, Glamorgan
-
29.04.1945
(KIA) [age 25]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar, 20.F.23]
Cadet
? [7358174]
2nd Lt.
28.04.1944 [315743]
WS/Lt.
28.10.1944
A/Capt.
?



Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.04.1944


commissioned, South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
?
-
29.04.1945
6th Battalion South Wales Borderers (Burma)
Gardiner,
Edwin Lover

E.L. Gardiner
30.07.1899
Hackney district, London
-
14.07.1972
Weston Favell, Brixworth district, Northamptonshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 18.07.1940 [141516]
WS/Lt. 27.07.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Capt. 27.04.1941-(07.1942),
13.08.1942-(07.1945)
18.07.1940     commissioned, The Suffolk Regiment [emergency commission]
13.01.1943 - (07.)1945 Adjutant, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)
Gardiner,
Percy Alec
P.A. Gardiner
Married; one daughter, one son.
Last residence: Scalby, Scarbourough, Yorkshire.
15.11.1918
Stapleford, Nottinghamshire
-
29.10.2008
St Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough, Yorkshire
QMS ?
2nd Lt. 05.11.1942 [251256]
WS/Lt. 05.05.1943
T/Capt. 28.06.1945-(04.1946)
Military Cross MC 03.05.1945 NW Europe 44-45 (for actions at Zetten the Netherlands, 45)
Education: Henry Mellish Grammar School, Nottingham; University College, London (Andrew's Scholar; Hons French); BA, MEd, Nottingham University.
15.11.1939 - 1942 enlisted, The Sherwood Foresters
05.11.1942     commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
(04.1944)     special appointment
(1944) - (1945) 1st Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment (NW Europe)
Assistant Master, Ilkeston Grammar School, 1948-1950. Assistant Master, Manchester Grammar School, 1950-1954 (teaching French, English and RI; Borrwodale; in charge 3rd XI Soccer). Founder Headmaster, Boreham Wood Grammar School, 1954-1961. (Last) headmaster of Scarborough High School for Boys, 1961-1974. First principal of Scarborough Sixth Form College, 1974-1979. Organist at Scalby Methodist Church for 25 years until 2002.
Gardiner,
Walter Hunter
W.H. Gardiner
Son of ... Gardiner, and ... Hunter.
1919
Tain district, Scotland
-
1992
Haymarket district, Scotland
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 20.04.1940 [129488]
WS/Lt. 20.10.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 05.04.1943-(04.1946)
? - 20.04.1940 either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
20.04.1940     commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]
09.08.1941     transferred, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
Gardner,
David Maitland
D.M. Gardner
Only son of John James Maitland Gardner (died 1945), and Alice Morley.
Married (05.10.1946) Barbara Helen Dundas (01.02.1922 - ), daughter of David John Wauchope Dundas (1886-1938), and Winifred Hersey MacKenzie (?-1946).
03.04.1914
Glasgow, Scotland
-
21.03.1995
Crieff Cottage Hospital (formerly of Culdees Castle, Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland)
2nd Lt. 23.01.1937 [70065]
WS/Lt. 03.12.1939
T/Capt. 03.12.1939-26.12.1942
WS/Capt. 27.11.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 27.11.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 19.04.1945 Italy [recommendation available upon request]
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 & 1st clasp
Mention in Despatches MID 11.11.1943 North Africa
Education: Charterhouse (1927.3-1933; Saunderites House); Clare College, Cambridge (1933-1940; BA 1936, MA 1940).
      late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Charterhouse
School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
23.01.1937     commissioned, 80th (Lowland) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(1945)     General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), HQ 57 Area, Central Mediterranean Forces (responsible for "G" staff work) (MBE)
? - 03.04.1964 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Director, A. Gardner & Son, house furnishers & furniture manufacturers, Glasgow. Member, Trade Wages Council representation of Scottish Employers, 1950-1954. President, Scottish House Furnishers' Association, 1951-1954. Member, Council of Industrial Design (Scottish Committee), 1951-1954. Chairman, Kinross & West Perthshire Unionist Association, 1960-1965.
Garlick,
Richard Norman Thomas
R.N.T. Garlick
02.11.1923
-
26.01.1989
Yeovil, Somerset
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
22.08.1943 [292184]
WS/Lt.
22.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe
22.08.1943





commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)


Officer Commanding, 4 Troop, "A" Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (France)
 
Garner,
Henry Houghton
"Harry"
H.H. Garner
Son (with one sister) of Horace Garner (1883-1962), and Ethel May Bosomworth (1881-1956).
Married ((03?).1951, Chatham district, Kent) Catherine Ryan; three daughters.
11.12.1911
Loughborough district, Leicestershire
-
01.06.2003
Frinton-on-Sea, Colchester district, Essex
2nd Lt. 04.03.1940 [122939]
A/Lt. 18.09.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Lt. 04.09.1941
T/Capt. 20.07.1942-(04.1946)
WS/Capt. 03.11.1946
T/Maj. 03.11.1946-(04.1947)
04.03.1940

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
Published: (with G.A. Briggs) Amplifiers, the why and how of good amplification (1952).
Garner,
Thomas Denis
T.D. Garner
Son of ... Garner, and ... Lea.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
21.08.1915
Huyton, Prescot district, Lancashire
-
30.05.1983
Ipswich district, Suffolk
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 08.02.1941 [170950]
WS/Lt. 08.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 06.04.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 04.1947 (deprived of the honorary rank on conviction by the civil power 05.06.1963)
Solicitor.
? - 08.02.1941 either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training unit
08.02.1941     commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
Struck off the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court due to conviction (18 months prison) for embezzlement, 02.04.1964.
Garner,
Thomas Houghton
"Tom"
T.H. Garner
Son of ... Garner, and ... Waite.
Married Helen (née ...) (predeceased him); one daughter.
29.06.1918
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
28.06.2008
Aldershot ?
2nd Lt. 12.12.1942 [255691]
... ...
T/Maj. 19.05.1945-02.06.1946
... ...
Brig. 31.12.1966 (retd 31.03.1973)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 30.09.1958 ?
12.12.1942


commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission to 30.09.1946]
01.10.1946     permanent commission
FIMechE, FBIM.
Garnier,
Leonard Harry
see: Royal Marine officers' section  
Garnsh,
Bernard Percy
B.P. Garnish
Son (with one sister and one brother) of William Charles Garnish (1877-1961), and Edith Eliza Tooke (1874-1957).
Married ((03?).1945, Greenwich district, London) Margaret Josephine Beedle (01.03.1920 - 24.06.2014); ... children (one daughter?).
15.09.1908
Catford, Lewisham district, London
-
18.10.1987
Lewisham, Gravesend district, Kent
Cadet ? [14319894]
2nd Lt. 21.01.1945 [339485]
WS/Lt. 21.07.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
1944 - 20.01.1945 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Newark
21.01.1945


commissioned, Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section) [emergency commission]
04.1945 - 1946 served in Singapore
 
Garrard,
Ronald Ernest
R.E. Garrard (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
31.01.1907
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
09.01.1984
Bristol, Gloucestershire
Sgt.
? [10558222]
2nd Lt.
28.12.1944 [336954]
WS/Lt.
28.06.1945
Lt.
01.08.1947, seniority 28.06.1945
WS/Capt.
? (removed from the Army on conviction by the Civil Power 13.04.1950)
A/Maj. ?
(1947)
28.12.1944




commissioned, Army Catering Corps [immediate emergency commission]
(1947)


HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
01.08.1947
-
13.04.1950
short service commission
 
Garratt,
Lawrence Francis
L.F. Garratt
09.07.1893
Headington
-
06.06.1967

Plaxtol, nr Sevenoaks, Maidstone district, Kent
2nd Lt.
18.07.1913 [5172]
Lt.
09.06.1915
A/Capt.
11.03.1917-25.04.1917
Capt.
18.07.1917
A/Maj.
26.04.1917-25.12.1918
Maj.
04.07.1932
Lt.Col.
01.08.1939 (retd 29.03.1947)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
03.06.1919
Italy
Military Cross MC
01.01.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
15.06.1916
?
Mention in Despatches MID
05.06.1919
?
Mention in Despatches MID
11.10.1945
for gallant and distinguished services in the field
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St ? ?
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 ? ?
Victory Medal VM ? ?
Afghanistan NW Frontier 1919 Medal & Clasp.
Belgium Order of the Crown (WW I) ?
Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 23rd Gunnery Staff Course (1931; and qualified in coast defence & anti-aircraft)
18.07.1913


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery



served World War I (France & Belgium 08.02.1915-17.05.1915 & 20.08.1915-18.11.1917; in Italy 19.11.1917-04.11.1918)
17.01.1916
-
28.02.1917
Adjutant, 105th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
13.08.1919
-
15.12.1922
Adjutant, ...
01.10.1926
-
21.09.1930
Adjutant, ... (Territoral Army)
(06.1933)


8th Field Brigade RA (Mhow)
(01.1937)


8th Field Brigade RA (Mhow, for Lucknow, Cawnpore & Fyzabad)
(01.1939)


7th Field Regiment RA (Catterick Camp)
...
-
...
...
 
Garrett,
Richard Strang
R.S. Garrett

15.01.1920
-
29.07.2008
Sapper
?
2nd Lt.
21.06.1939
WS/Lt.
01.01.1941
A/Capt. ? ?
Education: Bradfield College (09.1933-07.1937; 'B' House).



late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Bradfield College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps




served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers
21.06.1939





commissioned, 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
(1940)


served in Norway
? - 28.02.1943 captured during Operation Torch (invasion of Tunesia)
1943 - 1945 POW in Italian & German captivity
Journalist & author (of some 45 books).
Garside,
George
G. Garside
19.10.1912
-
[02.2007 still alive]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
16.01.1943 [261015]
WS/Lt.
16.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt.
< 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID
04.04.1946
NW Europe
1939
-
1943
enlisted & served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps (UK)
16.01.1943





commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] (UK & NW Europe)
 
Garstin,
Patrick Bannister
P.B. Garstin
Son of Capt. Richard Hart Garstin, CBE, RIN, and Mary Amelia Bannister.
Husband of Susan Nicola Garstin, of Canterbury.
17.07.1919
India
-

09.08.1944
(executed) [age 25]
[Marissel French National Cemetery, grave 325]
2nd Lt.
01.07.1939 [95531]
Lt.
01.01.1941
T/Capt.
08.09.1943-(04.1944)
Military Cross MC
11.07.1940
France
01.07.1939


commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles



2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles
?
-
04.07.1944
attached "D" Squadron 1st Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps
[
captured on Operation Gain 04.07.1944 and subsequently executed in the wood near Beauvais, France]
Gartside,
Arnold
A. Gartside
From Oldham.
(03?).1904
Rochdale district, Greater Manchester, Lancashire
-
03.05.1953
Winchester, Hampshire
Lt. (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th cl.)
01.07.1939 [90454] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. (T/OME 3rd cl.)
08.06.1940-(04.1941)
T/Capt.
29.07.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. 05.07.1945
Hon. Capt.
< 04.1946
Capt.
01.05.1947, seniority 05.07.1945
Maj.
01.09.1950
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
28.06.1945
Italy
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
21.04.1950
?
 01.07.1939
 
 
commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939
 
 
mobilized TA
01.10.1942
 
 
transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Garvey,
Patrick Brendan
P.B. Garvey
Son of Dr. Patrick Joseph Garvey, MB, ChB (1878-), and Anne Cassandra Colston.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
05.11.1914
Wolstanton district, Staffordshire
-
25.06.1973
Northallerton district, North Riding of Yorkshire
2nd Lt. 21.11.1934 (reld 11.12.1935)
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 29.06.1940 [138895]
WS/Lt. 29.12.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 16.08.1943-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ? ?
21.11.1934     commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
? - 29.06.1940 either 161st or 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.06.1940     commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) [emergency commission]
Gascoigne,
Douglas Wilder
D.W. Gascoigne D.W. Gascoigne
Son (with one sister) of Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Gascoigne (1893-1970), and Sylvia Wilder (1887-1938).
11.11.1917
Maidenhead, Berkshire
-
06.08.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[St Charles de Percy War Cemetery, France, II.A.3]
[commemorated at Aberford War Memorial]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 23.03.1940 [149126]
WS/Lt. 23.09.1941
A/Capt. 08.06.1943-07.06.1943
T/Capt. 08.09.1943-06.08.1944
1939 - 22.03.1940 Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit
23.03.1940     commissioned, Coldstream Guards [emergency commission]
14.10.1940 - 06.08.1944 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards (killed in action at Lassy when a shell hit his tank)
Gash,
Ivan Henry
I.H. Gash I.H. Gash
I.H. Gash I.H. Gash
Son of James Gash, and Henrietta Syme Whitworth.
Married ((06?).1941, Wilton district, Wiltshire) Margaret E. Millar.
26.12.1915
Lincoln district, Lincolnshire
-
08.01.1979
Dover district, Kent
2nd Lt. 30.01.1936 [67140]
Lt. 30.01.1939
A/Capt. 21.09.1939-20.10.1939,
10.04.1940-14.06.1940
T/Capt. 15.06.1940-07.06.1941
WS/Capt. 08.06.1941
Capt. 30.01.1944
A/Maj. 08.03.1941-07.06.1941
T/Maj. 08.06.1941-16.12.1942,
12.12.1944-30.06.1945
WS/Maj. 01.07.1945
Maj. 30.01.1949
A/Lt.Col. 01.04.1945-30.06.1945
T/Lt.Col. 01.07.1945-30.05.1947 (retd 01.03.1958)
Mention in Despatches MID 23.05.1946 Mediterranean
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College (psc).
30.01.1936     commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment
(01.1937)     1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (Egypt, for Holywood)
(01.1938) - (01.1939) 1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (Holywood)
1945 - 1945 Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Palestine Regiment (Jewish Infantry Brigade Group)
01.03.1958 - 26.12.1965 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Gaskell,
John Stuart Bengough
"Jack"
J.S.B. Gaskell (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Maj.Gen. Sir Herbert Stuart Gaskell, KCB, DSO and Bar (1882-1957), and Sybil Ann Louise Hudson (1880-1965).
Married ((06?).1952, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Diana M. Beer-Roberts
04.12.1909
Poonah, Bombay, India
-
03.1996
Hay-on-Wye district, Powys, Wales
2nd Lt. 30.01.1930 [44884]
Lt. 30.01.1933
Capt. 13.05.1938
A/Maj. 10.10.1940-09.01.1941
T/Maj. 10.01.1941-13.10.1941,
16.10.1941-30.06.1946
Maj. 01.07.1946 (retd 21.08.1953)
30.01.1930     commissioned, The Welch Regiment
28.03.1940 - 09.10.1940 Adjutant, ...
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
Gates,
John
J. Gates (Photo courtesy of Mr Jonathan Gates)
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
18.12.1917
-
08.12.1970
Uckfield district, Sussex (formerly of Petersfield, Hampshire)
Rifleman ?
2nd Lt. 29.11.1941 [219241]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld 30.09.1946)
T/Capt. 10.05.1944-30.09.1946
Town planning assistant, East Suffolk County Council.
08.08.1941 - 28.11.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst (Infantry)
29.11.1941     commissioned, Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
29.11.1941 - 23.03.1945 1st Battalion London Irish Rifles
[served Iraq, Sicily and Italy; wounded Anzio 08.02.1944; wounded Gothic Line 06.09.1944]
24.03.1945     transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
Gates,
Ronald Henry Charles
R.H.C. Gates
25.06.1911
-
08.03.1993
Bracknell, Berkshire
2nd Lt.
16.07.1942 [237307]
WS/Lt.
16.01.1943
T/Capt.
07.09.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.
? (reld 10.04.1948)
Hon. Capt.
10.04.1948
Capt.
18.01.1955, seniority 21.11.1951
Maj.
01.11.1956 (retd 25.08.1961)
Military Cross MC
15.11.1945
?
16.07.1942


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]



Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 9 (Far East)
01.01.1949
-
18.01.1955
Regular Army Reserve of Officers
18.01.1955
-
25.08.1961
Territorial Army
Gaunt,
Ronald
R. Gaunt
From Swaffham.
?
-
Gnr.
?
Wt.Off. II
?
Lt.
01.02.1941 [168494]
WS/Capt. 07.11.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.
07.11.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
Distinguished Service Order DSO
29.03.1945
NW Europe

 
served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.02.1941





commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
 
Gawthorpe,
John Bernard
J.B. Gawthorpe
Eldest son of late John H. Gawthorpe, Roundhay, Leeds.
Married (1915) Clarice Turner (died 1956), Roundhay; one daughter.
12.11.1891
Ossett, Yorkshire
-
20.08.1979
2nd Lt.
28.07.1911 [6876]
Lt.
1913
T/Capt.
?
Capt.
16.08.1915, seniority 20.06.1915
A/Maj.
01.06.1917-20.10.1917,
19.02.1918-...
T/Maj.
16.02.1918-20.06.1921
Bt. Maj.
11.11.1919 *
Maj.
25.09.1931 (retd 25.09.1931)
Maj. RARO
25.09.1931, seniortiy 04.01.1928
Lt.Col. TA
16.02.1934
Bt. Col. TA
16.02.1938
Col. TA
16.02.1938 (supernumerary 11.04.1945) (ceases to draw pay from Army Funds 27.01.1945) (retd 12.11.1948; age limit)
T/Brig. TA
25.08.1939-10.08.1940
Hon. Brig.
27.01.1945
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
02.01.1939
New Year 39
Mention in Despatches MID
20.12.1940
BEF 39-40
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
19.08.1943
?
* in connection with Military Operations in Archangel, North. Russia
Education: Wakefield; Leeds
28.07.1911


commissioned, 7th & 8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalions West Yorkshire Regiment - Territorial Army



served European War, France and
Belgium, 1915, 1917, 1918 (wounded); North Russia, 1919
29.05.1916


seconded, Machine Gun Corps
14.10.1916
-
20.11.1916
Assistant Instructor, Training Centre, Machine Gun Corps
20.11.1916
-
?
Instructor, Training Centre, Machine Gun Corps
04.05.1917


transferred from Territorial Force to Regular Forces
01.06.1917
-
20.10.1917
Assistant Instructor, Machine Gun Corps
19.02.1918
-
06.04.1918
Company Commander, Machine Gun Corps
07.04.1918
-
1918
Second-in-Command of a Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
08.11.1918
-
30.11.1918
Instructor (Class EE), Machine Gun Corps
12.12.1919
-
05.1921
Assistant Instructor, Machine Gun School
01.11.1921
-
01.10.1924
Officer in charge of Technical Duties (Class EE), Machine Gun School
28.03.1925


restored to the establishment of the regiment
01.11.1926
-
01.11.1930
Adjutant, 5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
25.09.1931
-
12.01.1946
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
16.02.1934
-
16.02.1938
Commanding Officer, 7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
25.08.1939
-
10.08.1940
Commander, 137th Infantry Brigade (UK, France, UK) [except for 21.06-05.07.1940]
05.06.1940
-
05.07.1940
acting General Officer Commanding, 46th Infantry Division (France & Belgium, UK)
18.10.1940 - (04.1941) Commander Home Guard, Cambridge Area
1943
-
1944
Commander, Cambridge Sub Area
Honorary Colonel, 12th/13th (Yorks) Battalion Parachute Regiment (TA), 02.04.1949-12.11.1956. President, 1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association, 1975-1976.
Gayton,
John Charles Thomas
J.C.T. Gayton (Photo courtesy of Mrs Ann Sheffield)

Son of Charles Edgar Gayton, and Doris M. Thomas.
04.01.1917
North Bierley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
19.12.1993
Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
21.01.1940 [113791]
WS/Lt.
21.07.1940 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
WW II


served in Africa and Burma:



served in the ranks, King's Royal Rifle Corps
?
-
21.01.1940
Officer Cadet Training Unit Sandhurst
21.01.1940





commissioned, Royal Scots Fusiliers [emergency commission]
26.02.1944


transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
Geare,
John Duncan Watherston
J.D.W. Geare
Son of Henry Leslie Geare (1886-1965), and Marjory Violet Watherston (1882-1969).
Married Mary F. (née ...); ... children (one son, one daughter?)
27.02.1919
Berkhampstead district, Buckinghamshire / Hertfordshire
-
16.06.2011
New Zealand
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
16.12.1939 [109916]
WS/Lt.
16.06.1941
T/Capt.
21.02.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.
06.09.1944 (reld 26.10.1946)
T/Maj.
06.09.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.
26.10.1946
Education: Christ Church College, Oxford (BA).

 
served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?
-
16.12.1939
either 131st or 132nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.12.1939





commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]



instructor in gunnery (anti-aircraft), qualified at a War Gunnery Course
Solicitor. Government servant, Malaya, 1950s.
Gearing,
Frederick Edward
F.E. Gearing
21.08.1892
Brighton, Sussex
-
02.08.1959
Brighton district, Sussex
L/Cpl.
?
2nd Lt.
07.07.1915
Lt.
?
T/Capt.
26.12.1918-14.07.1919
Capt.
05.11.1919 (reld 30.09.1921)
Capt.
31.01.1940 [101214]
T/Maj.
21.06.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.
15.09.1943 (retd 21.08.1945)
T/Lt.Col.
15.09.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.
21.08.1945
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
1944/45?
-



6th (Cyclist) Battlaion, Royal Sussex Regiment
07.07.1915


commissioned, 15th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles) - Territorial Force Reserve (Infantry)
26.12.1918
-
14.07.1919
commanding Co.  Demobilization Camp
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
02.09.1939


commissioned, Royal Sussex Regiment
31.01.1940


transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (General List)
Gee,
John Percy
J.P. Gee
Son (with three sisters) of Harry Percy Gee (1874-1962), and Augustine Flora Paget (1879-1919).
Married (01.10.1938, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Rachel Thornton Tyler (06.04.1918  - 10.1990) [who remarried (1972) Edward H. Burton]; two daughters, one son.
18.02.1916
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
27.12.1969
Midhurst district, Sussex
[Terwick Churchyard, Sussex]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 05.10.1940 [151150]
WS/Lt. 05.04.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1948)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
      either 122nd, 123rd, 125th, or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
05.10.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
His daughter writes: "We believe he first served with a unit in London, anti-aircraft, then was on the staff in Hamburg."
Gell,
William Eric
W.E. Gell (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)
1919 ?
-
10.1968
Isle of Man
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 21.08.1943 [289668]
WS/Lt. 21.02.1944 (reld 28.02.1951)
Sgt. ? [22549880]
Lt. 26.05.1953 [289668]
Capt. 03.08.1956
21.08.1943     commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
(1945)     1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)
28.02.1951     relinquished commission on enlistment in the ranks
26.05.1953 - 26.05.1963 Royal Army Ordnance Corps [short service commission]
26.05.1963 - 13.12.1963 Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
George,
Clayton Henry
C.H. George
Married Elsie Olding Knight (12.07.1909 - 01.10.2002); one daughter.
18.03.1906
Crampton, Ontario, Canada
-
25.10.1998
London, Ontario, Canada
Lt. 21.06.1935, seniority 21.06.1934 [65888]
Capt. 21.06.1936, seniority 21.06.1935
A/Maj. 13.02.1940-12.05.1940
T/Maj. 13.05.1940-20.06.1944
WS/Maj. 21.06.1944 (retd 26.10.1946)
Hon. Maj. 26.10.1946
Military Cross MC 18.02.1943 Middle East (Egypt & Libya) [recommendation available upon request]
Education: MD.
21.06.1935     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
(09.1935) - (10.1935) Royal Army Medical College
(01.1937) - (01.1939) served Shanghai
      served BEF (Dunkirk), North Africa [2 Motor Ambulance Convoy (earning MC)] & Italy
26.10.1946 - 21.06.1952 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
George,
Edwin Laurence
E.L. George (Photo courtesy of Mr Hywel George) E.L. George (Photo courtesy of Mr Hywel George)
E.L. George (Photo courtesy of Mr Hywel George) E.L. George (Photo courtesy of Mr Hywel George)
Son (with three sisters and seven brothers) of William Frank George (1887-1951), and Ella Susannah Hillier (1891-1945), of Warminster, Wiltshire.
13.06.1917
Chitterne All Saints, Warminster district, Wiltshire

-
10.07.1944
[age 27]
[Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery, Calvados, France, XII.A.9]
Cadet ? [5569527]
2nd Lt. 17.07.1943 [285236]
WS/Lt. 17.01.1944
      166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
17.07.1943     commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) [emergency commission]
? - 10.07.1944 5th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment
[05.07.1944, 02:00 hrs. Lt. E.L. George took out a recce patrol which moved through corn towards Hill 112. He reported that soft vehicles were heard moving and also what was possibly a tank. Killed in action 10.07.1944 during Operation "Jupiter" to capture the villages of Baron-sur-Odon, Fontaine-Étoupefour, Chateau de Fontaine and to recapture Hill 112.]
George,
Ronald Francis
R.F. George
Married (16.05.1942); ... children (one daughter?).
18.10.1907
St Albans, Hertfordshire
-
15.07.1987
St Albans, Hertfordshire
Lt. & Paym.
09.08.1939 [95745]
WS/Capt. & Paym.
01.11.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj. & Staff Paym. 2nd cl.
01.11.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID
09.08.1945
NW Europe
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
19.02.1952
-



late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major, St. Albans School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps

09.08.1939


commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
?
-
15.10.1962
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Gerrard,
Bernard Joseph Dudley

B.J.D. Gerrard
Son of Maj.Gen. J.J. Gerrard, CB, CMG.
Married  (02.01.1941, St Austin's Church, Nairobi, Kenya) Pamela Margaret De Villiers, widow of Lt.Cdr. Lindsay De Villiers, RN; one son, one daughter.
03.05.1901
Steyning district, Sussex
-

07.01.1965
Central Middlesex Hospital
2nd Lt. 23.12.1921 [6884]
Lt. 23.12.1923
Capt. 07.05.1935
Maj. 23.12.1938
A/Lt.Col. 15.11.1940-14.02.1941
T/Lt.Col. 15.02.1941-18.11.1944,
05.03.1945-09.12.1945
Lt.Col. 10.12.1945
A/Col. 01.01.1942-13.02.1942,
10.08.1943-18.09.1943
A/Brig. 11.01.1942-13.02.1942,
10.08.1943-18.09.1943
Brig. 01.07.1952 (retd 31.12.1954)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 30.12.1941 Middle East (East Africa & Madagascar)
Mention in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 Middle East
23.12.1921     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders
12.11.1927 - 25.02.1934 employed under Colonial Office (Royal West African Frontier Force)
23.09.1936 - 31.08.1940 employed under Colonial Office (Royal West African Frontier Force)
(1941)     1st Nigeria Regiment
06.01.1942 - 14.02.1942 acting Commander, 1st West Africa Infantry Brigade Group (West Africa)
16.04.1943 - 21.09.1943 acting Commander, 1st West Africa Infantry Brigade Group (West Africa)
Gibbon,
Robert Withers Jacomb

R.W.J. Gibbon
03.01.1897
Cuckfield district, Sussex
-

25.01.1956
Colchester district, Essex
2nd Lt.
? [97803]
Lt.
? (reld 01.04.1920)
Capt.
01.09.1939
T/Maj.
?
Hon. Maj.
?
Military Cross MC
01.01.1919
?
?


commissioned, Royal Field Artillery - Special Reserve
 (1918)


attached Signal Sub-Section, Royal Engineers, 5th Artillery Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery

24.08.1939


mobilized TA
12.1939
-
09.1940
Battery Commander (Officer Commanding), 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (Scotland) (medically unfit)
(04.1944)
-
(04.1946)
Unemployed List - Territorial Army
?
-
20.02.1952
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Architect.
Gibbons,
William Alexander Achard
W.A. Gibbons (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown) W.A.A. Gibbons

Only son of Col. William Ernest Gibbons, OBE, JP, and Alma Juliet Pauline Gibbons, of Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
19.06.1923
Chorlton district, Lancashire

-
14.06.1944
died from wounds and dysentery in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp
[Rangoon War Cemetery, Burma, 5.B.5]
2nd Lt. 07.11.1942 [269296]
WS/Lt. 07.05.1943
Education: Oundle School (1937-10.1940; St Anthony House 1937 & Sanderson 1938); Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
07.11.1942     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
04.1942 - 02.1944 attached, 24th R.B. Sappers and Miners, Royal Indian Engineers (wounded in Arakan; reported killed, but picked up by the Japanese and made POW)
Gibbs,
Denis Charles Parkins

D.C.P. Gibbs
Son (with one brother) of Charles A. Gibbs, and Alice H. Parkins.
Married ((12?).1941, Banbury district, Oxfordshire) Eileen Mary Jane Doolan (31.07.1922 - 01.02.2002); two sons, one daughter.
19.06.1917
Wandsworth district, London
-

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 15.02.1941 [170663]
WS/Lt. 15.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Education: Sir Walter St John's Grammar School for Boys, Battersea (1928-1934).
      either 151st or 152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.02.1941     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
      101 Line Section, Royal Signals (Southern Command)
Marketing manager of the Components Group, Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd., Footscray, Kent (1960s). Later used to run 14 factories for International Telephone and Telegraph. Webmaster. Invented a water leak detector and wrote a lottery syndicate book.
Gibbs,
Eric Philip

E.P. Gibbs
Son of Ernest Gibbs (1877-1934), and Constance Mary Shelmerdine (1880-1961).
Married ((12?).1944, Upton district, Worcestershire) Zoe M. Holderness; two sons, one daughter.
27.07.1916
Upton district, Worcestershire
-
07.2001
Banbury district, Oxfordshire
2nd Lt. 28.12.1939 [101379]
WS/Lt. 28.06.1941
T/Capt. 07.09.1944-(04.1946)
2nd Lt. 20.09.1947
Lt. 20.09.1947, seniority 20.09.1946
Hon. Capt. 01.04.1950
Hon. Lt.Col. 11.09.1968
Mention in Despatches MID 29.06.1944 gallant & distinguished services in the field
28.12.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
20.09.1947 - 11.09.1968 commissioned, Bloxham School Contingent - Junior Training Corps - General List - Territorial Army
01.04.1950     Intelligence Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Gibbs,
Frank Peter Russell

F.P.R. Gibbs
02.11.1921
-
06.11.1990
Poole, Dorset
2nd Lt.
13.06.1942 [235553]
WS/Lt.
13.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
1941
-
13.06.1942
No. 31 Class, 141 Officer Cadet Training Unit (Aldershot)
13.06.1942


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Gibson,
Edwin Charles
E.C. Gibson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Gibson) E.C. Gibson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Gibson)
E.C. Gibson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Gibson)
Son of ... Gibson, and ... Smith.
Married (09.05.1955, St Pancras, London) Betty Bryan Roots (06.10.1918 - 27.07.1997), earlier married (with two daughters) to Frank Stuart Boxall, and daughter of Oscar John Roots (1885-1981), and Doris Gertrude Bryan (1890-1936); one son, one daughter.
05.12.1919
Gillingham. Medway district, Kent
-
28.06.1974
Rochester, Chatham district, Kent
Lt. 03.06.1944 [322458]
WS/Capt. 03.06.1945 (reld 03.1947)
Education: Charing Cross Hospital; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1943; FRCS Eng 1952.
03.06.1944     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
      seconded, 2nd/4th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment (Italy & Greece)
Research Assistant, Institute of Urology, University of London & Clinical Assistant, St Paul's Hospital, London. Worked in Australia (Broken Hill, NSW).
Gibson,
John Hayworth
J.H. Gibson (Photo courtesy of David Welch)
Married 1st Kathleen Nancy ... (08.08.1919 - 11.2002). She remarried (1947) Daniel M. O'Connell.
Married 2nd (05.06.1954, Westminster Hall, Westminster, London) Valerie Jean Bayntun Welch (10.11.1927 - 07.11.2009).
20.12.1914
-
02.02.1974
St Marylebone district, London
Gnr. 10.12.1940
Cadet 30.12.1942
2nd Lt. 09.09.1943 [293339]
WS/Lt. 09.03.1944 (reld 12.07.1946) (relinquished commission 01.07.1959)
A?/Capt. 26.03.1945
T?/Maj. 09.07.1945
A/Lt.Col. 22.10.1945
Hon. Maj. 12.07.1946
39-45 St - -

Burma Star

Bur St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Insurance clerk (Industry-Lloyd's).
10.12.1940     enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery
19.12.1940 - 12.01.1942 86th Battery, 111th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
13.01.1942 - 29.12.1942 118th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
30.12.1942 - 08.09.1943 13th Officer Cadet Training RA
09.09.1943     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
11.12.1943 - 03.12.1944 205th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (10.02.1944 attached, Indian Army)
04.12.1944 - 12.07.1946 14th Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RIA
Director of United Standard, 1954. Freedom of London, 19.03.1954.
Gibson,
Robert John
R.J. Gibson   
26.08.1920
-
24.03.2011
Birmingham, West Midlands
2nd Lt. 18.02.1942 [227359]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 23.11.1944-(04.1946)
Lt. 21.11.1947, seniority 26.08.1943
Capt. 01.10.1949
A/Maj. 19.02.1953
Maj. 26.08.1954, seniority 19.02.1953
A/Lt.Col. ?
Lt.Col. 26.08.1958, seniority 02.10.1956
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 68
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 18.03.1960 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 15.07.1966 -
18.02.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch) [emergency commission]
01.10.1942     transferred, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
21.11.1947     commissioned, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Territorial Army
      Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
01.10.1969     Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)
04.07.1973 - 04.07.1978 Honorary Colonel, Birmingham University, Officer Training Corps, T.A.V.R.
Giddings,
James Duncan
J.D. Giddings
Only child of Frederick Giddings.
Married 1st ...; one daughter.
Married 2nd Ella Anna Pfaff; one daughter.
07.03.1892
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
27.06.1973
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lt. ? [74938]
local Lt. 23.04.1937, seniority 11.03.1931
local Capt. 01.01.1939
A/Capt. 1941?
WS/Capt. 1943?, seniority 23.04.1937 (reld > 04.1947)
Mention in Despatches MID 11.02.1941 Somaliland
WW I     Lance-Corporal & Acting Staff Quartermaster Sergeant, Army Ordnance Corps
01.04.1933 - (04.1941) Northern Rhodesia Regiment
23.04.1937     commissioned, General List - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
(04.1944)     employed, King's African Rifles
Giddings,
Norman Cyril
N.C. Giddings (Photo courtesy of Mr Norman C. Giddings) N.C. Giddings (Photo courtesy of Mr Norman C. Giddings)
Son (with one sister) of Cyril Percy Giddings (1894-1962), and Iris Victoria Finniss (1903-1987).
Married 1st ((03?).1951, Southend-on-Sea district, Essex) Joyce M. Clark.
Married 2nd (31.03.1967, Toronto, Canada) Mrs Doreen I. Brill (née Payne)
14.11.1926
Prittlewell, Rochford district, Essex
-
23.01.2018
London, Ontario, Canada
Cadet ? [14490312]
2nd Lt. 23.06.1945 [349589]
WS/Lt. 23.12.1945 (reld 12.1947)
early 1944     joined the Army, quickly made it to L/Cpl.; then officer training in Wales
23.06.1945


commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) [emergency commission]
      2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
      Junior Liaison Officer 3, 3rd Infantry Brigade
      Camp Commandant, 3rd Infantry Brigade
      Hirings and Disposals, North Palestine District
      Staff of Transit Depot Port Fouad Egypt
? - 12.1947 hospitalized in Fayed Suez Canal Zone with emergency surgery on appendix (later) gangrene
Giffard,
Sir George James
G.J. Giffard G.J. Giffard
G.J. Giffard G.J. Giffard
G.J. Giffard G.J. Giffard
G.J. Giffard G.J. Giffard
G.J. Giffard

Son of George Campbell Giffard, Englefield Green.
Married (1915) Evelyn Norah (died 1964), daughter of Richard Margerison, Winchester; one daughter.

27.09.1886
Englefield Green, Surrey
-
17.11.1964
Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester
2nd Lt.
24.01.1906 [3408]
... ...
Lt.Gen.
01.07.1939, seniority 04.07.1938
Gen.
12.12.1941 (retd 17.08.1946)
Knight Grand Corss of the Order of the Bath GCB
01.01.1944
New Year 44
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1938
New Year 38
Distinguished Service Order DSO
04.06.1917
distinguished service in the field
Mention in Despatches MID
01.04.1941
Middle East 08.39-11.40
Mention in Despatches MID
26.10.1944
Burma & Eastern Frontier of India
Order of Polonia Restituta 1st Class (14.12.1943); Croix de Guerre (France) (31.08.1917)
24.01.1906


commissioned, The Queen's Regiment
...
-
...
...
01.07.1939
-
04.02.1940
Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War, War Office
21.02.1940
-
25.06.1940
General Officer Commanding, Palestine & Trans-Jordan
26.06.1940
-
11.07.1941
General Officer Commanding, West Africa
1943


General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army, India
15.10.1943
-
11.11.1944
Commander-in-Chief, 11th Army Group (South East Asia)
18.10.1943
-
?
also: ADC General to the King
Colonel, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), 01.05.1945-28.09.1954. Colonel Commandant, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, 08.06.1945-28.09.1954. Inspector General, The King's African Rifles, 13.10.1936-01.07.1939. Inspector General, Royal West African Frontier Force, 13.10.1936-1938 (Colonel Commandant 08.06.1945-28.09.1954).
Gilbert,
Douglas Kenneth Manwaring
D.K.M. Gilbert
From London.
12.07.1918
-
01.1999
Eastbourne, Sussex
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
18.01.1941 [166665]
WS/Lt.
18.07.1942
T/Capt. 08.05.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.
25.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.
25.12.1944-(04.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
23.08.1945
Italy
Mention in Despatches MID
19.07.1945
Italy

 
Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.01.1941





commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
 
Gilbert,
Edward Theodore
E.T. Gilbert
Changed surname from Goldblatt to Gilbert, 23.10.1939.
Married Helen Mary Don "Hebe" Fox (15.08.1912 - 15.12.1995); one daughter.
31.03.1911
Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland
-
19.09.1988
Lt.
12.11.1939 [108109]
WS/Capt. 12.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.
?
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
Distinguished Service Order DSO
22.07.1943
gallant & distinguished services in the field
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
20.04.1943
gallant & distinguished services in the field
Education: MB
12.11.1939





commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
      1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
 
Gilbert,
Henry John

H.J. Gilbert  
?
-
2nd Lt. 31.07.1942 [237312]
WS/Lt. 3101.1943 (reld 10.1946)
T/Capt. 12.07.1945-(08.1946)
A/Maj.? 1946 ?

 

31.07.1942     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Gilbert,
Maurice Lionel

M.L. Gilbert M.L. Gilbert
M.L. Gilbert
19.02.... ?
-
1993 ?
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 01.02.1941 [174025]
WS/Lt. 01.08.1942
T/Capt. 01.05.1943-04.05.1944
WS/Capt. 05.05.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Capt. 08.08.1951
39-45 St - -

Africa Star

Afr St - -

Italy Star

It St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
01.02.1941     commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
07.1941     attached, The Scinde Light Horse - Indian Army (left for training centre 04.1942, rejoined regiment 07.1942; served in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon)
08.08.1951 - 19.02.1962 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [reached age limit]
Gilchrist,
Arthur Hutchinson

A.H. Gilchrist  
From New Southgate.
Married ((03?).1941, Westminster district, London) ... Gerrard.
1911 ?
-
(12?).1957
Westminster district, London
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 27.07.1940 [140039]
WS/Lt. 27.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 1945?
Hon. Capt. < 04.1946
Lt. 18.10.1950, seniority 27.01.1942
Capt. 21.04.1951 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial 27.11.1953)
Military Cross MC 31.08.1944 Normandy [citation available upon request]
Member of Daily Express Coupon Department, General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation Ltd., Aldwych, London.
? - 27.07.1940 162nd or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
27.07.1940     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(06.1944)     1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Normandy; severely wounded) (MC)
18.10.1950 - 27.11.1953 short service commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Giles,
Bruce Talbot
B.T. Giles
Son of Frederick William Giles and Margaret Mary Maud Palin Giles (née Evans), of Gordons, Almondsbury, near Bristol.
Brother of Capt. John F. Giles, The Gloucestershire Regiment, and of Sq.Ldr. David Giles, RAF.
25.04.1920
Abbots Leigh, Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
20.03.1994
Taunton Deane district, Somerset
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
04.07.1940 [138338]
Lt.
04.01.1942
T/Capt.
23.06.1945-(04.1946)
?
-
03.07.1940
Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.07.1940


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
(12.1941)


No. 3 Commando (?) (took part in the Vaagso raid in which his brother was killed 12.1941)
11.03.1943
-
(04.1946)
seconded, The King's African Rifles
Giles,
Edward Henry
"Ned"
E.H. Giles
From Wickford, Essex.
12.01.1920 ??
-
05.2000 ??
Colchester, Essex ??
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
29.06.1940 [138837]
WS/Lt.
29.12.1941
WS/Capt.
04.07.1945
T/Maj.
04.07.1945-... (reld > 04.1946)
Military Cross MC
15.06.1943
North Africa
Military Cross MC
07.12.1944
Italy



161st (or 162nd) Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.06.1940


commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission]
Giles,
John Frederick
J.F. Giles (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Casey)
Son of Frederick William Giles and Margaret Mary Maud Palin Giles (née Evans), of Gordons, Almondsbury, near Bristol.
Brother of Capt. Bruce T. Giles, The Gloucestershire Regiment, and of Sq.Ldr. David Giles, RAF.

(09?).1917
Abbots Leigh, Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
27.12.1941
(KIA) [age 23]
[Brookwood Memorial, Bagshot, Surrey, panel 1, column 3]
2nd Lt.
27.07.1936 [68678]
Lt.
27.07.1939
T/Capt.
09.12.1940-(04.1941)
Education: Bristol Preparatory School; Kelly College, Tavistock



late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major, Kelly College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps

27.07.1936
-
(01.)1939
commissioned, 6th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment - Territorial Army (Bristol)
< 07.1939





transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
summer1940
-
27.12.1941
No. 3 Commando (Lofoten raid & Vaagso raid [killed in action as Troop Officer of No. 3 Troop])
Army Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Southern Command.
Gilford,
the Lord;
Meade, John Charles Edmund Carson;
6th Earl of Clanwilliam (succ. 23.01.1953);
4th Baron Clanwilliam, of co. Tipperary;
6th Baron Gillford, of the Manor of Gillford, co. Down;
6th Viscount Clanwilliam, of co. Tipperary;
9th Baronet Meade, of Ballintubber, co. Cork

Lord Gilford   
Only son (with two sisters) of Arthur Vesey Meade, 5th Earl of Clanwilliam (1873-1953), and Muriel Mary Temple Stephenson (1876-1952).
Married (01.12.1948, St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, London) Catherine Lloyd (1923 - 22.01.2014), youngest daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Arthur Thomas Lloyd (1882-1944), of Lockinge, Wantage, Berkshire; six daughters.
06.06.1914
Chelsea district, London
-
30.03.1989
Oare, Marlborough, Devizes district, Wiltshire
2nd Lt. 01.02.1934 [62576]
Lt. 01.02.1937
A/Capt. 28.11.1939-09.01.1940,
05.03.1940-21.04.1940
T/Capt. 22.04.1940-31.01.1942
Capt. 01.02.1942
A/Maj. 20.10.1942-19.01.1943
T/Maj. 20.01.1943-06.10.1943,
30.12.1943-(04.1946)
Maj. 01.02.1947 (retd 23.06.1948)
Mention in Despatches MID 30.06.1942 Middle East 07.41-10.41
Mention in Despatches MID 06.04.1944 Middle East

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & clasp

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
01.02.1934     commissioned, Coldstream Guards
11.06.1939 - 10.06.1942 Adjutant, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards (Middle East)
06.1942 - 10.1942 Staff College Middle East, Haifa
20.10.1942 - 08.11.1942 HQ 30 Corps (Middle East)
09.11.1942 - 29.12.1943 Brigade Major, 201st Guards Motor Brigade (Middle East)
30.12.1943 - 15.07.1945 Brigade Major, 6th Guards Tank Brigade, from 02.02.1945 6th Guards Armoured Brigade (UK, NW Europe)
16.07.1945 - 1945 Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
1945     Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, USA
23.06.1948 - 06.06.1964 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Deputy Lieutenant, Co. Down, 1957-1962. HM Lieutenant, Co. Down, 1962-1975. HM Lord Lieutenant, Co. Down, 1975-1979. OStJ, CStJ 1975.
Gill,
Brian
B Gill (Photo courtesy of Mr Nick Gill)

Son (with one brother) of Herbert Edward Hopper Gill (1883-1961), and Beatrice Victoria Andrews (1887-1963).
Married ((06?).1958, Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey) Rosalys Alfreda Berry (03.10.1921 - 02.2005); one son.
03.06.1916
Thanet district, Kent
-
08.07.1977
Caterham, South East Surrey
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 22.04.1943 [273133]
WS/Lt. 22.10.1943
T/Capt. 12.07.1945-21.11.1945
WS/Capt. 22.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 22.11.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Capt. 01.05.1947, seniority 24.11.1945
A/Maj. 01.05.1947-02.06.1950
Maj. 03.06.1950, seniority 01.05.1947
Lt.Col. 01.05.1960
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 06.02.1953 -
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) TEM 14.06.1949 - [1953 cancelled due to being awarded TD]
22.04.1943     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
26.06.1944     transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
01.05.1947     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
30.04.1961     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
His son writes: "He joined the 4th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (TA) as a private just before the war, which became 127th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, tasked with defending a number of RAF fighter bases in South East England. During the early years of the war he was promoted to Bombardier and then to Sergeant. He attended Officer Training School in North Wales in 1942 and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. He then transferred to the Infantry joining the Royal West African Frontier Force (6th Gold Coast Regiment) as a Platoon Commander. He ended the War as a Major in command of 17th West African Independent Infantry Company. He then joined the re-formed Territorial Army in 1947 as a Battery Commander and was promoted to Lt Col in 1960 as CO of 565 LAA Regiment RA (4th Queens)."
Gill,
George Tough
G.T. Gill
15.07.1902 ?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 28.06.1941 [194778]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
A/Maj. 21.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj. 21.11.1944
T/Lt.Col. 21.11.1944-(04.1947)
28.06.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Gill,
Ian Gordon
I.G. Gill
Son of late Brig. Gordon Harry Gill, CMG, DSO and Mrs Doris Gill, Rochester, Kent.
Married (1963) Elizabeth Vivian Rohr, MD, MRCP (died 1990), only daughter of late A.F. Rohr; no children.

09.11.1919
Rochester, Kent
-
23.11.2006
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
2nd Lt. 24.08.1939 [79107]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
Lt. 17.01.1945, seniority 09.05.1942
A/Capt. 01.12.1940-28.02.1941
T/Capt. 01.03.1941-05.09.1941
WS/Capt. 06.09.1941
Capt. 09.11.1946
A/Maj. 06.06.1941-05.09.1941
T/Maj. 06.09.1941-08.11.1953
Maj. 09.11.1953
T/Lt.Col. 01.03.1957-23.08.1957
Lt.Col. 24.08.1957 (supernumerary 24.08.1960)
local Col. 08.01.1963-21.04.1963
Col. 05.02.1964, seniority 22.04.1963
T/Brig. 05.02.1964-30.12.1966
Brig. 31.12.1966
Maj.Gen. 09.08.1968, seniority 02.05.1968 (retd 16.12.1972)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1972 New Year 72
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 13.06.1959 HM's birthday 59
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 07.01.1949 New Year 49
Military Cross MC 20.12.1940 France & Flanders
Military Cross MC 12.04.1945 NW Europe (Dutch-German border)
Mention in Despatches MID 23.08.1945 NW Europe
Education: Edinburgh House, Hampshire; Repton School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1952; psc); Imperial Defence College (1963; idc).
     

late Cadet Under-Officer, Repton School Contingent, Officer Training Corps

07.12.1938     commissioned, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (Supplementary Reserve of Officers)
24.08.1939 - 15.08.1948 served 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards
1939 - 1940 Officer Commanding 3 Troop, C Squadron, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France & Belgium)
1944 - 1945 Officer Commanding HQ Squadron, later C Squadron, later A Squadron, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (British Liberation Army, NW Europe)
17.01.1945     transferred to Royal Armoured Corps
09.11.1946     transferred to 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards
1946 - 15.08.1948 Second-in-Command, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (Palestine)
16.08.1948 - 27.05.1950 Instructor, Tactical Wing, Royal Armoured Corps Centre (Lulworth)
1951 - 1952 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (Tripolitania)
09.03.1953 - 06.02.1955 Brigade Major, HQ 61st Lorried Infantry Brigade
1957 - 1959 Commanding Officer, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (British Army of the Rhine)
10.10.1959 - 11.08.1961 Assistant Military Secretary, HQ, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
29.09.1961 - 20.12.1962 College Commandant, Victory College, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
05.02.1964 - 18.01.1966 Commander, 7th Armoured Brigade (British Army of the Rhine)
17.02.1966 - 1968 Deputy Military Secretary 1, Ministry of Defence (Army)
1968 - 1970 Head, British Defence Liaison Staff, Department of Defence, Canberra
1970 - 1972 Assistant Chief of General Staff (Operational Requirements)
Honorary Liveryman, Coachmakers' Co., 1974. Colonel, 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, 1973-1978.
Gillan,
John Hamilton
J.H. Gillan (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son of Kenneth Hume Gillan (1883?-1940), late Sarawak Government Service, and Anne Campbell Christie, of Blackhall, Edinburgh.
11.07.1920
Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo
-
11.01.1944
(KIA) [age 23]
[Lauro Military Cemetery, 19.02.1945 reburied at Minturno War Cemetery, Italy, VII.C.4]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 17.07.1942 [239416]
WS/Lt. 17.01.1943
Military Cross MC 21.10.1943 Primosole bridgehead, Sicily 16.07.1943 [recommendation available upon request]
Education: Bedford School (09.1934-04.1936; won the Feather Weight competition in the junior house boxing competition in 1936).
17.07.1940 - 02.05.1941 enlisted service, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [6099829]
17.07.1942     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942) - 11.01.1944 1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk, later Sicly & Italy)
Gillespie,
J
J. Gillespie
?
-
WS/Lt. ?
?     commissioned or transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)     3rd Parachute Battalion
Gillett,
[Sir] Peter Bernard
P.B. Gillett
Son of Bernard George Gillett, OBE, Milford on Sea, Hants.
Married (1952) Pamela Graham (died 10.01.2007, aged 95), widow of Col. Rhodri J. Lloyd Price and daughter of Col. Spencer Graham Walker, Winsley, Wilts.
08.12.1913
-
04.07.1989
Windsor, Berkshire
2nd Lt.
01.02.1934
...
...
T/Maj.
01.12.1941-15.02.1943,
08.03.1943-31.01.1947
...
...
Maj.Gen.
28.12.1962 (retd 31.05.1968)
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO
1979
?
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
1973
?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1966
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
19.07.1955
?
Education: Marlborough College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
01.02.1934


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
06.03.1940
-
30.07.1942
Instructor (Class B), School of Artillery, India
31.07.1942
-
29.01.1943
Brigade Major, ... Indian Division
30.01.1943
-
27.11.1943
Instructor (Class A), Armoured Fighting Vehicle School, India
29.03.1944
-
26.08.1944
Brigade Major, ... Indian Division
21.09.1944
-
14.03.1945
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
1945


appointed to Royal Horse Artillery
1945
-
1946
British Liberation Army/British Army of the Rhine
17.09.1946
-
17.12.1948
Instructor (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
1949
-
1955
staff appointments in UK and East Africa
1955


Commanding Officer, 5th Royal Horse Artillery
1958


SHAPE
28.12.1959

15.12.1961
Commander Royal Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division
1962


Imperial Defence College
28.12.1962
-
19.03.1965
Chief of Staff, HQ Eastern Command
10.04.1965
-
1968
General Officer Commanding, 48th Division TA & West Midland District
Secretary, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, 1968-79. Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1968-78. Governor, Military Knights of Windsor, 1980-89.
Gilling,
Philip George
P.G. Gilling
Son of ... Gilling, and ... Tipton.
Married ((09?).1947, Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset) Barbara R. Bonning; ... children (one daughter?).
11.12.1923
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
12.10.1983
Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset
Cadet ? [14436219]
2nd Lt. 19.11.1944 [334954]
WS/Lt. 19.05.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
19.11.1944     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
      served in Burma
Gillington,
John Herbert
J.H. Gillington
Married Cecil Catherine Gillington (née ...) (died 26.02.2007; one son, one daughter.
03.08.1910
-
20.04.1970
Devizes district, Wiltshire
2nd Lt.
28.08.1930
...
...
T/Maj.
31.08.1941-08.02.1942,
12.02.1942-06.12.1945
...
...
Col.
29.01.1957 (retd 04.09.1959)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
10.06.1948
?
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
05.12.1946
?
Military Cross MC
01.03.1945
?
Education: BA; psc
28.08.1930


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
24.10.1937
-
17.12.1940
Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
18.12.1940
-
30.05.1941
Staff Captain, War Office
31.05.1941
-
21.09.1941
Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), G7, War Office
22.09.1941
-
08.02.1942
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (SO2), ...
25.01.1945
-
20.08.1945
Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), South East Asia Command
...
-
...
...
Gillis,
Allan Webster
A.W. Gillis   
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Alfred John Gillis (1893-1966), and Sarah May Irvine (1893-1959).
Married (23.12.1950) Daisy Henry (01.08.1921 - 06.09.2013), daughter (with one sister and two brothers) of Alexander Henry (1882-1965), and Isabella Ann Coutts (1896-1957); one daughter, two sons.
22.01.1920
Waterbury, Connecticutt, United States of America
-
15.03.1989
Hartford, Vale Royal district, Cheshire
2nd Lt. 23.12.1941 [222431]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld 01.11.1946)
A/Capt. 01.07.1946-31.09.1946
T/Capt. 01.10.1946-01.11.1946
Education: Aberdeen University (Private, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps).
15.11.1940 - 19.07.1941 Gunner, 6th Field Training Regiment RA (Dalry)
20.07.1941 - 23.12.1941 Anti-Aircraft Troop, 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit RA (Shrivenham)
23.12.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
 12.1941 - 28.08.1942 87th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Swindon) (seriously injured)
[03.03.1942 course at 8th Anti-Aircraft Divisional School]
28.08.1942 - 28.09.1942 sick leave
29.09.1942 - 11.11.1942 116th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (SW England)
[sick leave 16.10.1942-02.1943]
12.11.1942 - 21.03.1943 Depot RA (Woolwich) (while on sick leave; was treated in several hospitals)
22.03.1943 - 06.05.1943 122nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
07.05.1943 - 27.07.1943 temporarily unfit for general service
[14.06-24.06.1943 course at Anti-Aircraft School RA]
29.07.1943 - 25.08.1943 Scottish Command Vehicle Maintenance School
15.10.1943 - 05.03.1944 6th Anti-Aircraft Group RA
06.03.1944 - 08.07.1944 permanently unfit for general service (few days hopsital)
09.07.1944 - 08.1944 287th Independent Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery RA
[31.07-06.08.1944 course S.T.9]
08.1944 - 11.1944 633rd Independent Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery RA
11.1944 - 05.1945 180th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
[31.01-05.02.1945 course specialist technical inspector]
11.05.1945 - 07.06.1945 Depot RA (Woolwich) (for embarkation to British Liberation Army)
08.06.1945 - 10.1945 No. 7 Enemy Ammunition Depot Control Unit
10.1945 - 14.04.1946 Depot & Holding Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Donnington)
[31.11.1945-15.01.1936 31st Inspecting Ordnance Officer course]
15.04.1946 - 09.1946 No. 27 Ammunition Sub-Depot RAOC (Shefford)
Gilmore,
Walter James
W.J. Gilmore   
Son of John Herbert Gilmore, and Lily Emily Butcher.
Married ((03?).1940, Basingstoke district, Hampshire) Irene Pope, of Martham, Norfolk.
(03?).1918
Farnham district, Surrey / Sussex
-
08.04.1943
Pichon, Tunisia
[Enfidaville War Cemetery, Tunisia, III.F.16]
2nd Lt. 16.07.1939 [96122]
WS/Lt. 16.01.1941
T/Capt. 13.05.1942-08.04.1943
Solicitor. Awarded the Hampshire Law Society Prize, 1939.
16.07.1939     commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
? - 08.04.1943 2/4th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment
Gladstone,
John Henry Hutton
J.H.H. Gladstone (Photo courtesy of Dominic Jones)
Only son of Reginald John Gladstone (1865-1946), Doctor of Medicine, and Ida Millicent Field (1877-1968), of Dulwich.
Married (22.04.1939, Catholic Church, Hythe, Elham district, Kent) Kathleen Mary Cavey (06.03.1914 - 11.1998), younger daughter of Arthur Oliver Cavey (1881-1974), and Ethel Maud Quadling (1881-1962), of Riversdale, Hythe; two sons, one daughter.
12.09.1913
St Pancras district, London

-
27.10.2003
Kent
2nd Lt. 12.07.1934 [63045]
31.08.1935, seniority 01.02.1934
Mediterranean 01.02.1937
A/Capt. 08.12.1939-07.03.1940
T/Capt. 08.03.1940-15.04.1940,
14.05.1940-13.01.1944
WS/Capt. 14.01.1944
Capt. 01.02.1944
A/Maj. 14.10.1943-13.01.1944
T/Maj. 14.01.1944-12.05.1944,
09.07.1945-17.04.1947,
23.04.1947-31.01.1948
Maj. 01.02.1948 (retd 16.04.1963)
T/Lt.Col. 03.10.1949-16.04.1963
Hon. Lt.Col. 16.04.1963
Mention in Despatches MID 23.05.1946 Mediterranean
Education: BSc.
12.07.1934     commissioned, General List (University Candidates) - Territorial Army
31.08.1935     transferred, The North Staffordshire Regiment - Regular Army
25.01.1938     transferred, Army Educational Corps (from 28.11.1946 Royal Army Educational Corps)
? - ? ?
Glass,
?
Glass
?
-
?
2nd Lt. ?
Lt. ?
(04.1945)     14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment
Glassborow,
Maurice Basil
M.B. Glassborow
Son (with two brothers and two sons) of Reginald Bowerman Glassborow (1886-1961), and Mabel Vera Tomlinson (1893-1970).
Married ((09?).1941, Fulham district, London) Beatrice Joan Swainston (10.02.1916 - 22.12.1979); three children.
11.01.1917
Wanstead, West Ham district, Essex

-
18.01.2008
Gilling West, Richmond, North Yorkshire
Gnr. ? [841529]
2nd Lt. 25.09.1942 [245419]
WS/Lt. 25.03.1943 (reld 27.11.1945; disability)
Hon. Lt. 27.11.1945
(1939)     served in the ranks, 31 Battery, Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
25.09.1942     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Glencairn Campbell *,
Walter Glencairn
W.G. Glencairn Campbell   
Son of Charles John Francis Campbell, and of Zoe Florence Bradshaw.
Married (04.09.1939, Glasgow [civil] & 02.02.1940 Holy Trinity, Brompton, London [religious]) Charmian Cecil de Vere Brinton (03.05.1919 - 28.03.1962), of Kensington, London, daughter of Cecil Charles Brinton (1883-1970), and Kathleen Cecil Maude (1881-1954); one daughter, one son. Charmian Glencairn-Campbell remarried (24.04.1947) Sir Robert Henry Muir Mackenzie, 6th Bt.
* Changed surname from Campbell to Glencairn-Campbell by deed poll of 15.07.1939.
08.03.1889
Kensington, London
-
21.10.1944
[age 55] (following an operation)
[Belbroughton (Holy Trinity) Churchyard Extension, Worcestershire, grave 144]
2nd Lt. 18.09.1909 [4416]
Lt. 24.02.1912
T/Capt. 21.10.1914-21.01.1915
Capt. 22.01.1915
T/Maj. 28.10.1915-01.05.1920
Bt. Maj. 01.01.1918
Maj. 01.04.1928
Bt. Lt.Col. 20.12.1932
Lt.Col. 01.12.1936
Bt. Col. 28.09.1938, seniority 20.12.1935
T/Col. 12.12.1934-15.03.1935
Col. 16.10.1938, seniority 20.12.1935 (supernumerary 31.12.1942)
A/Brig. 12.11.1940-11.05.1941
T/Brig. 12.05.1941-(01.1942),
21.08.1942-(04.1944)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 13.03.1925 Waziristan 23/24
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St ? ?
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 ? ?
Victory Medal VM ? ?
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1916 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 15.05.1917 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 11.12.1917 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 01.04.1941 ?
Waziristan 1921-24. Despatches 13.03.1925. Medal and CIasp. OBE.
Burma 1930-32. Despatches 20.12.1932. CIasp.
Palestine 1936-39. Despatches 15.09.1939. Medal and CIasp.
Education: Staff College (psc).
18.09.1909     commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
11.03.1915 - 11.02.1918 served in France & Belgium:
11.05.1915 - 02.09.1915 Adjutant, 10th (S.) Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
28.10.1915 - 09.12.1915 acting Commanding Officer, 10th (S.) Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
01.09.1916 - 06.01.1917 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), ... (France)
07.01.1917 - 13.02.1918 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), ... (France)
14.02.1918 - 01.05.1920 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), Western Command (temp.)
16.02.1922 - 14.12.1923 Brigade Major, ... (India)
18.12.1923 - 17.02.1925 Brigade Major, ... (India)
06.05.1928 - 05.05.1932 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Burma Independent District (India)
(06.1933)     1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Edinburgh)
15.09.1933 - 30.11.1936 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 50th (Nothumbrian) Division (Northern Command), of which:
12.12.1934 - 15.03.1935 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), International Force Saar Territory
01.12.1936     transferred, The Royal Norfolk Regiment
01.12.1936 - 28.09.1938 Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Aldershot, then Gibraltar)
28.09.1938 - 19.11.1939 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), HQ 7th Division (Jerusalem)(temporary)
20.11.1929 - 26.10.1940 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
06.03.1941 - ? Commander, North Highland Area (Scottish Command)
1941     Commander, Glasgow Area
Glennie,
John Bedford Arthur
"Jack"
J.B.A. Glennie
08.08.1914
-
06.03.1994
Exeter, Devon
2nd Lt.
30.08.1934
...
...
T/Lt.Col.
07.07.1943-07.03.1945,
26.03.1945-15.10.1947,
14.07.1952-14.08.1953,
31.08.1953-13.06.1956
...
...
Brig.
18.06.1964 (retd 08.08.1969)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
?
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
24.12.1944
?
Mention in Despatches MID
11.02.1941
?
Education: psc
30.08.1934


commissioned, Royal Sussex Regiment
16.07.1940
-
10.09.1940
GSO3, Somaliland Force
11.09.1940
-
03.10.1941
GSO3, HQ British Troops in Egypt
04.10.1941
-
21.11.1941
GSO3 (Instructor), METS
22.11.1941
-
01.02.1942
GSO2 (Instructor)
02.02.1942
-
12.09.1942
GSO2 (Instructor), Junior Staff School
13.09.1942
-
19.12.1942
DAQMG, HQ Troops in Sudan
12.06.1944
-
24.11.1944
GSO1 (Chief Instructor), Junior Staff School Middle East
...
-
...
...
Glieberman,
Leslie
L. Glieberman (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Jervis)
Son of David Glieberman (1888-1971), and Sarah Greenstone (1892-1968).
Changed surname by deed poll to Glenville 16.01.1948.
03.06.1920
Coventry district, Warwickshire
-
03.1999
Coventry district, West Midlands
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 05.04.1941 [180544]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
WS/Capt. 20.12.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj. 20.12.1944?
Education: University of Birmingham; attended a Company Commander's course at the Tactical School, India (Junior Wing). Special language skills: elementary Urdu.
05.04.1941     commissioned, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(1943)     7th Rajput Regiment
 
Gloucester,
HRH the Duke of;
Prince Henry William Frederick Albert;
Earl of Ulster

Duke of Gloucester Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Gloucester Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Gloucester (© Imperial War Museum (A 19686)) Duke of Gloucester (© Imperial War Museum (A 19687))

31.03.1900
York Cottage, Sandringham
-
10.06.1974
Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire
2nd Lt.
30.08.1934 [11891]
...
...
Maj.Gen.
01.01.1937
Lt.Gen.
17.09.1941 (supernumerary)
Gen.
27.10.1944 (supernumerary)

KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO
MID 20.12.1940

16.07.1919


commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
...
-
...
...
02.08.1929


Personal ADC to the King
04.09.1939
-
08.08.1940
Chief Liaison Officer, British Expeditionery Force
09.08.1940
-
17.10.1942
Chief Liaison Officer, GHQ Home Forces
Governor-General of Australia, 1945-1947.
Glover,
Miss Anna Reaveley
A.R. Glover A.R. Glover
A.R. Glover    
Daughter (with three sisters and two brothers) of Terrot Reaveley Glover, MA (1869-1943), Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Alice Emily Cornelia Few (1875-1955).
Married (06.08.1940, London City) Brig. Ernest Wentworth Wade, DSO, MBE, MD, RAMC (14.10.1889 - 04.12.1970).
25.03.1900
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
-
18.02.1971
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Lt. (Medical Officer with relative rank) 28.11.1939 [110673]
A/Maj. (Medical Officer with relative rank) 09.07.1940-25.09.1940
Education: Perse High School for Girls, Cambridge; St Albans High School; Girton College, Cambridge (08.10.1919-1923; Nat. Sci. Trip., Pt. I, Cl. II 1923; MA 1927); St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington (1924-1927; BChir 1927, MB 1928; registration 04.01.1928).
Assistant Anaesthesist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Clinical Assistant, Department for Nervous Diseases, St Mary's Hospital, 1928. Resident Anaesthesist, King's Lynn Hospital, 1929. Resident House Surgeon, Birmingham Eye Hospital, 1929. Assistant in general practice, 1930. Senior Resident Officer and Anaesthesist, St Mary's Hospital, 1931. Civil Service appointment as Deputy Medical Officer, HM Prison, Holloway, 1932-1939 (seconded to Broadmoor for 2 months 1936).
28.11.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
09.07.1940 - 25.09.1940 a Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), Eastern Command
Assistant Sch. Medical Inspector and Assistant Clinical Ophthalmic Department, Addenbrooke's Hospital, 1943. Clinical Assistant, Moorfield Eye Hospital and London Hospital, 1945-(1948). Part-time assistant in general practice.
Glover,
Cedric Howard
C.H. Glover   
Son (with one brother) of John Howard Glover (1860-1947), and Ella Howard Gwyther (1867-1948).
Married (24.06.1920, Kendal, Cumbria) Winifred Mary Crewdson (15.03.1895 - ), daughter (with two brothers and two sisters) of Francis William Crewdson (1853-1941), and Annie Whitwell Wilson (1867-1947); two sons (Maj. Jocelyn Howard Glover, Royal Welch Fusiliers), one daughter.
20.06.1892
Hampstead, London
-
22.07.1970
Middlesex Hospital, St Marylebone district, London
2nd Lt. 25.10.1939 [106764]
T/Capt. 25.01.1940-...
WS/Capt. 11.02.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
A/Maj. 11.11.1940-10.02.1941
T/Maj. 11.02.1941-(07.1945)
Hon. Maj. > 07.1945, < 10.1945
Mention in Despatches MID 28.12.1918 ?
Education: Rugby School (1906.2-1910.2); Balliol College, Oxford (1911-1913; BA, 1914; MA 1918).
Partner in Glover Brothers (later Director of Glover Brothers Ltd) - ship brokers of London, 1913-1939.
1915 - 1919 Service Battalions (Territorial Force), The Middlesex Regiment [temporary commission; T/2nd Lt., T/Lt., T/Capt.]
25.10.1939     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
25.10.1939 - 10.11.1940 a General Staff Officer, 3rd grade, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
11.11.1940 - (07.)1945 a General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, Directorate of Public Relations, Department of the Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for War, The War Office
01.07.1942     transferred, Intelligence Corps
Sometime Honorary Treasurer Royal Musical Association; General Council King George's Fund for Sailors; Executive Committee, Musicians' Benevolent Fund; Director Music and Letters Ltd.; Benton Fletcher Advisory Commission. The National Trust.
Published: The Term's Music, 1925; Dr. Charles Burney's Continental Travels, 1927.
Glover,
Colin Merriam
C.H. Glover   
Eldest son (with three brothers) of Dr. James Alison Glover, CBE (1876-1963), and Katherine Merriam (1888-1978).
Brother of Maj. Michael Alison Glover, Sherwood Foresters, and Sg.Capt. Eric Charles Glover, RNR.
Married 1st (03.06.1936, All Souls', St Marylebone district, London) Adelaide Elizabeth Angela Whelpdale (25.11.1912 - 07.01.1986), only daughter of Arthur Whelpdale; three sons.
Married 2nd (1975, Westminster district, London) Lee Thomas Huffman (? - 23.10.1987).

26.03.1912
Highbury, Islington district, London
-
08.12.1992
Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea district, London
2nd Lt. 19.05.1938 [75857]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
T/Capt. 20.04.1941-05.11.1942
WS/Capt 06.11.1942 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj. 06.11.1942-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj. > 10.1945, < 01.1946
Maj. 01.05.1947
Lt.Col. 01.05.1954
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 30.12.1949 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 15.05.1959 1st clasp
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 15.05.1959 2nd clasp
Education: Oundle School (Cadet Serjeant, Oundle School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps); St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1933, MA 1937).
Worked at British Xylonite of Brantham, Suffolk (a firm founded by his maternal grandfather and great grandfather).
19.05.1938     commissioned, 58th Medium (Suffolk)
Brigade [from 1939 Regiment], Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA (see IWM interview for details of service with BEF)
12.10.1941 - (04.)1943 Instructor in Gunnery, Gunnery Wing, School of Artillery, Larkhill
01.08.1943 - (10.)1943 Instructor in Gunnery, Gunnery Wing, School of Artillery, Larkhill
? - 01.05.1954 Second-in-Command, 358th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Regiment RA (TA)
01.05.1954 - 01.01.1956 Officer Commanding, 358th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Regiment RA (TA)
01.01.1956     Unattached List, TA
22.03.1960     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Returned to British Xylonite after the war, rising to become Managing Director in 1957, the company being reorganised as Bakelite Xylonite Ltd. in 1963, and retired in 1969. Executive Director of Lloyds Register of Shipping, 1969-1977.
Glover,
Edward Robert Kenneth
"Ted"
E.R.K. Glover 
Son of Kenneth Septimus Glover (1879-1959), and Jessie Mabel Little (1880-1945), of Stourport.
Married (03?).1938, Cardiff district, Glamorganshire, Wales) Everilda Marie Hennessey Turnbull (25.10.1908 - 09.1990), daughter (with six brothers and one sister) of Philip Bernard Turnbull (1874-1930), and Annie Mary Hennessy Oates (1879-1942); one son.

19.07.1911
Worcester, Worcestershire
-
23.03.1967
Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales
Gnr. ?
2nd Lt. 21.06.1939 [91487]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941 (demobilized > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 09.04.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Maj. 01.05.1947
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 16.03.1951 -
Education: Sherborne School (1925.3-1929; Harper House; VI, XI 1928/29).
Insurance broker. Played cricket for Glamorgan (1932-1938).
      late Cadet, Sherborne School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
21.06.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
15.04.1948     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Glover,
Sir Guy de Courcy
G. de C. Glover  

27.04.1887
-
30.04.1967
2nd Lt.
29.08.1906 [1336]
...
...
Maj.Gen.
01.08.1939, seniority 23.06.1938 (supernumerary 27.07.1944) (retd 24.04.1946)

KBE, 1944; CB 1941; DSO 1918

29.08.1906
 
 
commissioned, South Staffordshire Regiment
...
-
...
...
01.08.1939
-
30.03.1940
Bombay District Commander, India
06.04.1940
-
08.06.1940
Director of Recruiting & Organization, War Office
09.06.1940
-
12.09.1940
Deputy Adjutant-General, War Office
13.09.1940
-
10.02.1941
Director of Organization, War Office
1941
-
1946
Deputy Adjutant-General (B), War Office
Glover,
Ian
I. Glover   
Son (with one brother) of Norman Glover (1884-1950), and Irene Gladys Gorrill (1886-1978).
Married ((12?).1949, Belper district, Derbyshire) Joyce Mary Wilmot (02.10.1926 - 08.01.2006); two sons.
10.12.1920
Market Harborough district, Northamptonshire
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.09.1943 [269824]
WS/Lt. 09.03.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 14.02.1945-(08.1946)
09.09.1943     commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
Glover,
Ivor
I. Glover (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 26.04.1941 [184629]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. (1945)
Lt. 01.05.1947, seniority 01.10.1942
Capt. 12.07.1948
Maj. 01.05.1956
Mention in Despatches MID 29.11.1945 Italy
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 13.07.1951 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 30.12.1958 1st clasp
26.04.1941     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942)     1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)
01.05.1947     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
18.09.1950     seconded for services on the staff
28.11.1961     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Glover,
Jack
J. Glover   
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 06.12.1941 [219861]
WS/Lt. 06.12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 1945?
Hon. Capt. < 04.1946
Lt. 01.01.1952, seniority 04.11.1949
Capt. 04.11.1953 (reld 01.01.1960)
1934     L/Sgt., 7th Queen's Own Hussars
06.12.1941     commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
      served in Burma (11th Sikh Regiment, 5th Indian Division)
01.01.1952 - 01.01.1959 short service commission (attached to No 2 Basic Training battalion REME in Honiton, Devon)
01.01.1959 - 01.01.1960 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Glover,
Jocelyn Howard
I.H. Glover   
Elder son (with one brother and one sister) of Maj. Cedric Howard Glover (1892-1970), General List & Intelligence Corps, and Winifred Mary Crewdson (1895 - ).
Married 1st (26.07.1945, Oxford, Oxfordshire) Marian Elizabeth Stark (04.07.1924 - 26.12.1961), daughter of  George Heppell Stark, and Emma Goodchild; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (07.04.1962, St Marylebone district, London) Elizabeth Wyndham Pugh.
14.05.1924
St Marylebone district, London
-
21.07.1987
Bradford, Yorkshire
Cadet ? [6108307]
2nd Lt. 24.03.1944 [314016]
WS/Lt. 24.09.1944
A/Capt. 23.12.1945-22.02.1946
T/Capt. 23.02.1946-30.10.1946
T/Maj. 31.10.1946-(04.1947)
Education: Rugby School (1938.2-1942.2; VI; Fencing Team, 1942); Balliol College, Oxford (1942-1943; special examin. Hist 3).
02.12.1942 - 23.03.1944 enlisted service, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment.
24.03.1944     commissioned, Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
1945     Captain, Personnel Selection
Underwriting Member of Lloyd's, 1949. Director, F. Bolton & Co. (Foreign) Ltd. Director, Glover Brothers (London) Ltd., 01.01.1953. Director, Charlotte Mason Schools Co. Ltd.
Glover,
Michael Alison
M.A. Glover   
Son (with three brothers) of Dr. James Alison Glover, CBE (1876-1963), and Katherine Merriam (1888-1978).
Brother of Col. Colin Merriam Glover, Royal Artillery, and Sg.Capt. Eric Charles Glover, RNR.
Married (01.09.1945, Holy Trinity, Brompton) Daphne Joy Bowring (28.11.1921 - 21.08.1997), youngest daughter of Noel H. Bowring; one daughter.
20.05.1922
Hampstead, London
-
25.09.1990
Lynch, Gloucestershire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 22.05.1940 [233945]
WS/Lt. 22.02.1943
T/Capt. 16.08.1944-(12.1946)
Lt. 01.10.1948, seniority 20.05.1945
Capt. 01.04.1952
T/Maj. 18.08.1955
Maj. 20.05.1956, seniority 18.08.1955
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 09.07.1963 -
Education: Oundle School; St John's College, Cambridge (matriculated 1940, but did not complete his
degree before joining up); BA 1947; Ma 1949).
22.05.1940     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.12.1943     transferred, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
23.09.1944 - 1945 captured in Italy after crossing the River Rubicon on a reconnaissance mission & subsequently POW (No. 139423) in German captivity (Stalag VIIA, Moosburg, Isar)
01.10.1948     commissioned, Rifle Brigade - Territorial Army
11.12.1950 - 01.02.1952 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.02.1952 - 23.04.1963 on active list again
23.04.1963     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Joined British Council, 1947-1970.
Published: Wellington's Peninsular victories (1963); Wellington as military commander (1968); Britannia sickens : Sir Arthur Wellesley and the Convention of Cintra (1970); Legacy of glory (1971); 1815 - the armies at Waterloo (1973; with U. Pericoli); An assemblage of Indian Army soldiers and uniforms (1973); The Peninsular War : a concise history (1974); Rorke's Drift : a Victorian epic (1975); General Burgoyne in Canada and America : scapegoat for a system (1976); Wellington's army (1977); A very slippery fellow : Sir Robert Wilson (1978); The Napoleonic Wars : an illustrated history, 1792-1815 (1979); Warfare in the age of Bonaparte (1980); The fight for the Channel Ports : Calais to Brest 1940 : a study in confusion (1985). Contributor to: History Today; Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research.
Glubb,
[Sir] John Bagot
"Jack";
[known as Abu Hunaik; called Glubb Pasha]
J.B. Glubb J.B. Glubb
J.B. Glubb J.B. Glubb
J.B. Glubb J.B. Glubb
J.B. Glubb J.B. Glubb
J.B. Glubb J.B. Glubb
J.B. Glubb J.B. Glubb
J.B. Glubb J.B. Glubb
Only son and younger child of late Maj.Gen. Sir Frederic Manley Glubb, KCMG, CB, DSO, and Frances Letitia Bagot.
Engaged (1934) Mary Dorothy "Molly" Turner, only daughter of Mr H.A. Turner, Director of Customs, Transjordan.
Married (1938) Muriel Rosemary Forbes, daughter of Dr James Graham Forbes; one son, and one son, two daughters adopted.

16.04.1897
Preston, Lancashire
-
17.03.1986
Mayfield, Sussex
[memorial window in the parish church of Mayfield, Sussex]
2nd Lt.
20.04.1915 [1427]
A/Capt.
26.08.1916-....,
12.08.1918-20.08.1918,
...-07.02.1919
T/Capt.
01.04.1922-13.11.1922
Capt.
14.11.1922 (half-pay 17.09.1926) (retd 17.09.1927; receiving a gratuity)
Capt. RARO
17.09.1927, seniority 21.05.1920
local Maj.
01.11.1930-(04.1946)
local Col.
(1941)
A/Brig.
30.08.1944-(04.1946)
Lt.Gen.
?
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Civil Division) KCB
06.03.1956
?
Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George CMG
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46: Colonial Administrative Service, Officer Commanding Arab Legion, Palestine
Distinguished Service Order DSO
21.10.1941
Middle East *
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
03.06.1924
HM's birthday 24
Military Cross MC
01.01.1918
Arras (France)
King's Police Medal for distinguished service KPM
02.01.1939
as Second-in-Command, Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan
Mention in Despatches MID
21.10.1941
Middle East
- Ntce 15.03.1929 brought to notice: for distinguished services rendered in connection with the operations against the Akhwan in the Southern Desert, Iraq 11.27-05.28
Fourth Class (Civil Division), Order of Al Rafidain (Iraq); 02.08.1934); First Class of the Order of El Istiqlal (Transjordan; 05.07.1940); First Class of the Order of El Nahda (Transjordan; 18.08.1944)

Education: Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (08.1914)
20.04.1915


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
04.1915
-
11.1915
RE Depot, Chatham
11.1915
-
11.1918
7th Field Company RE (France; wounded thrice, MC)
02.1919
-
?
School of Military Engineering (Chatham)
09.1920


to Iraq as Lieutenant RE
01.04.1922
-
09.06.1922
employed with the RAF (Iraq)
10.06.1922
-
30.09.1922
Special Service Officer (Class FF) with the RAF (Iraq)
01.10.1922
-
17.09.1926
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Intelligence) with the RAF (Iraq) [under the Air Ministry]
17.09.1927
-
?
Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Became Administrative Inspector, Iraq Government, 1926; transferred Transjordan, 1930 [up till 15.05.1948 under Colonial Administrative Service, from then employed by the Government of Transjordan].

1932
-
1939
Officer Commanding Desert Area
1939
-
1956
Chief of General Staff, the Arab Legion, Amman, Jordan
KStJ, 30.12.1954.
Published: Story of the Arab Legion, 1948; A Soldier with the Arabs, 1957; Britain and the Arabs, 1959; War in the Desert, 1960; The Great Arab Conquests, 1963; The Empire of the Arabs, 1963; The Course of Empire, 1965; The Lost Centuries, 1967; The Middle East Crisis-A Personal Interpretation, 1967; Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, 1967; A Short History of The Arab Peoples, 1969; The Life and Times of Muhammad, 1970; Peace in the Holy Land, 1971; Soldiers of Fortune, 1973; The Way of Love, 1974; Haroon al Rasheed, 1976; Into Battle: a soldier's diary of the Great War, 1977; Arabian Adventures, 1978; A Purpose for Living, 1979; The Changing Scenes of Life (autobiography), 1983.
Literature: Benny Morris, The road to Jerusalem : Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews (2002).
* During the operations in Iraq, Major Glubb, in command of the mechanized portions of the Arab Legion, was an inspiration to all those who worked with him. He led many forays behind the enemy lines, harassing their communications and destroying railway lines. In the Syrian operations Major Glubb has again been forward in action. In July his force was attacked by a mechanize enemy column. Despite being under heavy machine gun fire he at once personally organized a spirited counter-attack, which resulted in the complete rout of th enemy and the capture of about 80 prisoners and much war material. A "bonny fechter", his name in the desert is one to conjure with.
 
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